Until recently I had underestimated the value that can be gained by implementing an effective logging strategy.
The most common benefit to be gained is of course that it makes your application easier to debug. As a developer you have probably tailed an apache error log when trying to debug an issue. This technique is [...]
Tags: Best Practise, Logging, PHP
In this post I’ll look at how to manage the use and maintenance of Phabric within a team of business analysts, testers and developers. Phabric is a dynamic fixture creation tool I created for use with the testing framework Behat. It allows you to embed fixture creation into your Gherkin feature files and scenarios. [...]
Behat is a relatively new testing framework, many developers are using it in personal projects and teams are beginning to use it for production projects as well. Recently a number of people have asked me about how Behat testing is integrated into larger projects involving teams of developers, testers and other stake holders. Common questions [...]